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[svandamme]

Originally Posted by widebody911

my dad, when i was like 5, we went to forest with the school.
he told all the kids those are chocolates. Horrified mothers ensued.. he laughed.

[devodave]

Originally Posted by widebody911

The foot of High Street where I grew up. Norfolk Naval Shipyard Museum in the background. Situated on the Elizabeth River.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by widebody911

My brother has been, and still hunts deer, for 50+ years. On occasion he has a FNG want to learn a few tips to be a better hunter so he asks to tag along. Deer droppings look much like chocolate covered raisins. He has pocketed a handful of chocolate covered raisins and when he sees some deer droppings pretends to pick one up, but of course it is just a chocolate covered raisin. He eats that and tilts his head, and chews it a while before swallowing. He then proclaims something like that is a 120 pound doe that had a single fawn this year and they have been eating a lot of acorns, so we should go towards the oak trees to find her and her herd.

The new guy just stands there with his mouth open and then my brother hands him a real deer turd and asks if he wants to try it. Of course back at camp the FNG tells everyone about the crazy dude that eats deer droppings and knows it was a doe.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by widebody911

When i was a kid, several times a year mom would make a picnic lunch and pack my brothers and I in the station wagon and we'd meet my dad for lunch at his work (Hercules). We'd drive to an observation point and watch the solid fuel rocket motor test firings. Some were big, some smaller, but it was always a big deal to us.
the Polaris motor was one of em.

More recent tests at same site:

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

When i was a kid, several times a year mom would make a picnic lunch and pack my brothers and I in the station wagon and we'd meet my dad for lunch at his work. We'd drive to an observation point and watch the solid fuel rocket motor test firings. Some were big, some smaller, but it was always a big deal to us.
IIRC the Polaris motor was one of em.

More recent tests at same site:

that's cool! For us a day like that was a drive to Newark airport's observation deck to watch the planes come and go. Yeah I know, that was 40 years before the Towers came down.

[GH85Carrera]

[devodave]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

When i was a kid, several times a year mom would make a picnic lunch and pack my brothers and I in the station wagon and we'd meet my dad for lunch at his work (Hercules). We'd drive to an observation point and watch the solid fuel rocket motor test firings. Some were big, some smaller, but it was always a big deal to us.
the Polaris motor was one of em.

More recent tests at same site:

Cool! I imagine the shock wave was pretty impressive.

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

For all of your "Goat Pus" needs.

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[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by devodave

Cool! I imagine the shock wave was pretty impressive.

It was a fraction of energy of a shuttle launch, but we were allot closer and there was no sound suppression system on the test stand like they had on the shuttle launches. So yeah, on the bigger tests it was intense.
And the full force lasted for the entire burn, where a shuttle would be long gone after a short time.
But most of the time they were testing smaller 2nd or 3rd stage motors which weren't all that powerful and they only tested solid-fuel engines there.

Once in a while we'd get to see a bigger 1st stage ICBM motor test like for the minuteman II for morton-thiokol.
Fun-fact: at the time the titan and atlas ICBMs were liquid-fueled and the fuel was highly corrosive so it had to be stored separately. That meant that it took up to an hour to fuel them up and get them ready to launch. No such thing as satellite launch detection systems back then, so by the time we were ready to retaliate it might have been too late. Not good.

The minuteman rockets were solid-fueled, so they could be ready launch in a minute's notice. Hence the name

minuteman launch:



Moon booster:

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[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

WTH are we looking at here?

[porsche tech]

My thought exactly!

[id10t]

Originally Posted by Jim Horton

WTH are we looking at here?

Maybe something to prevent someone from popping the hood and raising just enough to reach a hand in and disconnecting the alarm relay or similar in order to steal the car, add a tracker, etc.




Spent my entire vacation (all last week and thru tuesday this week) fishing at various places (Matanzas Inlet and Shell Mount/Cedar Key). Skunked on the east coast, but caught this one and landed 1 other, lost two as I was lifting them to the pier (bridge net in my future!) tangled with 5 more of these guys that broke off. About 24" at the fork.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

What the heck is the goal (besides keeping people from grabbing or leaning on something)?

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by id10t

Maybe something to prevent someone from popping the hood and raising just enough to reach a hand in and disconnecting the alarm relay or similar in order to steal the car, add a tracker, etc.

I wouldn't have ever thought of that answer! (I'm so naive...)

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